Friday, October 16, 2009
Re: [Geopriv] Add IP address prefixes in held-identity-extensions?
> The use case that got me started was that a lot of entities nowadays use
> the WHOIS databases as an approximate geolocation tool for IP address
> allocations. You could replace this functionality with a real location
> service using a combination of HELD servers that know about prefixes and
> lis-discovery records in the reverse-DNS trees.
And we do of course already have a draft [draft-thomson-geopriv-res-gw-lis-discovery] which describes using the reverse-DNS trees to find HELD servers...
Ray